บท 24: A Call for a choice 1
I wasn't dead.
That I'm sure of.
Since I could feel pain in the back of my head.
"So this is that kid?"
"Yeah, shithead dirtied my bike."
I felt pain in my calves, like I was kicked. They just kicked a child's body. Dammit it's a good thing I was trained by Sarge this pain isn't going to make me squirm in pain.
I stood still with no reaction, as if I'm still unconscious, I made sure that my breathing is still the same.
"Enough, you did well"
"So where's… "
I can't see since my whole head is covered but it seems like the man who complimented the obvious gang member threw something at him. As something stumbling can be heard.
"Haha! You Mafia's are really amazing!"
"Our deal is done so you can leave"
"Pleasure doing business~"
I heard the clanging of metal, it's the same sound when you close a store. I can pretty much assume I'm inside of some warehouse or an abandoned store since they won't just take me in an open area where people could see.
Lacking information for a moment I decided to stay still and listen to my surroundings.
"So this is that kid…?"
"Yeah, Boss wants him alive."
Still slumping over on the concrete ground, I started formulating a plan to get out of here, subtly moving my hands I knew that I wasn't tied by a rope.
It was a standard police cuff.
As I was racking my brain someone lifted me up like a sack of potatoes, I was a long tedious walk. I saw the lights fade a few times through the sack in my head.
Patience is one of my fortes, I was brought through several rooms as I heard multiple doors opening, till lastly my cuff was momentarily taken off and I was placed in a chair being cuffed once again.
"You two, guard the kid."
–Clang
The door we went through is a metal door after that subtle clanging. We went through 8 doors in total. And two of those places I went through are probably a hall.
This cannot be a warehouse so I'm assuming it's an underground shop.
I sighed inwardly.
This is going to be a handful. I clenched my teeth and started checking, my earpiece storage is still there. They must have missed it since there is a sack in my head.
Well that's a mistake on their part, I waited for a few minutes, making sure that I am alone with two people as the voice has said.
Taking out a frag grenade I held it tight so as not to activate the spring, took out the pin and started using it to pick and lock the cuff. It was hard but manageable.
–click
There I felt it. Once I let myself free the chains will rattle and alert the two people guarding me. If only there weren't a sack in my head I could gather more information but that's all I could do for now.
My feet are tied but I'll solve that problem later.
I threw the grenade forward and removed the sack in my head.
"What the—"
"wha—"
–Boom!
It would take a few minutes for someone to get here. About 8 doors away, the last door is the basement, the 7th is a hall, and in that hall I only heard a few footsteps.
So in conclusion, this place doesn't have that many people in it.
The room was also spacious, as I laid down backwards and the grenade didn't affect me in this distance.
The two guards however, were unrecognizable.
Flesh torn, excessive bleeding–No a chunk of flesh on the ground. They were still breathing. I narrowed my eyes and my face contorted on that sight. Taking out a gun from Arsenal and ending their suffering.
This one is much more brutal than when I got attacked in front of the warehouse. I gagged a bit at the sight of Gore in front of me.
I shook my head, shoving the thought of disgust welling up to me, i've seen beasts get brutalized like this with my own hands but never humans, but if I continue with this grimace I might not survive.
For now I decided to move forward, taking out two flashbangs and my gun out my Arsenal, I opened the metal door and threw a flashbang out
–Bang!
I opened the door quickly. Left and right of the hall I checked and there are only 7 people there, I carefully examined them and they all had weapons.
Shooting them at the head, one per person I made sure none were alive. I was a kid who was kidnapped by a gang and now at the hands of the mafia.
These people surely saw me here, I don't need to give them any sympathy. Seeing a lot of them working with the mafia.
I'm sure people would be running here any minute, since the hall had no cameras I formulated a plan.
And a devilish grin appeared on my face. I entered one of the rooms and to my surprise the room was filled with illegal artifacts.
Unregistered artifacts that are in circulation are illegal. After all, the government is controlling their circulation in case some villains manage to get their hands on it.
And here I am, in a room full of them.
"I couldn't just leave it here can I?"
The smile is still on my face. I abused the amount of space my earpiece storage could hold and took all the accessories type artifacts.
There are still some weapon type artifacts but I only took a tiny bit of them.
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[Crescent moon blade][{-A}Tier]
–With the light of the moon and the hammer of Kiea this sword was forged and holds the power of the moon on its crescent blade.
[Nightwood bow][{B}Tier]
–A bow made of Nightwood only found on elves' homeworld Gaia is a durable and strong bow, Nightwood is one of the most durable woods second only to the world tree.
[Shinobi's Dagger][{B+}Tier]
–A dagger made for assassination, its coated with the darkness making it impossible to see from the dark, the blade also have no sound when thrown and it has no presence.
===
Not going to lie, it was a good hoard. But I still needed to escape this place, so I looked around…. And there were vents, I'm not that big yet. I decided to go the hard way.
Not long after I heard multiple footsteps. Seemingly running. As I erased evidence of me being in the room I quietly crawled through the vents.
I evened my breathing and made sure to slowly move so as not to alert the busy bodies below me.
"Find that kid!"
I heard a raspy voice below me, guessing the location I guess that I'm above the hall. Crawling towards a screen I looked down, I saw multiple men with weapons armed in them searching the area.
And looking forward it seems I'm not that far from the door. A metal door.
Pulling the pin of the flashbang I smashed in the vent screen and dropped it. The ones in the vicinity of the flashbang got caught at the explosion, the ones in the range of 3 meters are deafened and blinded.
The ones beyond 5 meters are blinded. After seeing the effect, of course I jumped down with two pistols one in each hand.
'On Sight'
I muttered under my breath and the world slowed down for me. Since there is a lot of them this was the best choice, as aiming takes time.
I jumped down the vent and started shooting, one bullet one kill. And since each bullet here is modified by A-9 back at Naia it could kill [A] to [B] rank beasts and since beasts are a lot more stronger than humans I could say with confidence that none would be able to touch me with this weapons.
–Bang! Bang! Bang!
Five men died, eight men died and then twelve then sixteen. Until twenty two were killed the room was filled with dead bodies with similar injury.
A hole in the head.
Between the brows.
I inhaled and exhaled, the moment i've killed back in front of the warehouse it my perk on OS got activated and I felt less guilt when killing.
I'm afraid I might lose myself if I don't keep a moral compass, so I would only kill if absolutely necessary. Just like now.
Several footsteps could be heard, not above me but to the end of the hall. There were steps up and a door was at the end of it.
The 7th door.
Six more and I'm out of here, there are three halls I've been through according to the time I have been carried every time my kidnapper entered the door.
I'm inside the enemy's fort so the only thing I could do is carefully get out of here. The vents aren't a choice since there are fans inside them too.
I can't keep crawling inside because the choice of directions I could go is limited.
I sighed and took out a sniper rifle out of my Arsenal, it's a CheyTac M200 sniper rifle.
And this one, I removed the scope, after all I don't need it.
Shooting the hall lights except the one in front of the stairs where the door is I went to the darkest end of the hall.
Soon after I heard the door burst open.
"what the fuck… "
They were perplexed, the hall was dark but there was a singular light. And that light illuminated the dead bodies of their comrades in which I killed.
Their faces started to grimace.
"c-can we even find the brat here?"
"if we don't were dead, Jesus this body count"
When every single one of them were on the ground floor I waited a bit. There were no more coming down the stairs.
That's when I shoot.
There were no sounds coming out of my gun. Only a flash of light at the end of the dark hall.
The bullet pierced one person and ricocheted to the other. Killing three in an instant, after all I always have aimed for the head.
"What the fuck!"
One tried to run upstairs but immediately got shot down by me, in the head of course.
"That fuckin—"
One shot at the front, the ones behind became collateral. Bodies dropping like luggage being dropped without care.
There were twenty of them, now all dead.
Since I don't have another storage for myself I started looting the dead bodies. I saw a golden ring amongst them. When I checked it seemed to have a lot of storage space in it.
I took the ring and wore it on my middle finger. It has some potions inside of it and some weapons such as a sword, well I could make an extra buck with this so I looted everyone dead on the floor with the new ring I have.
And moved forward, immediately I was met with a hall. The halls I have been through were three but I only felt them on the doors first, third and of course the fifth.
This is just the sixth if I'm correct, meaning…
I opened the doors nearest to the hall. And oddly enough some of them are halls. The door opposite where I came from had the same design, a stairs going down to another floor.
This might be an underground storage house. I sighed, and it might be a large one too.
This might be an underground network built for a purpose but considering that I was kidnapped and there were some illegal artifacts found here. And what worries me the most is that there are these circular things in ever entrance.
I'm confused by the design and later have a realization when I cross the fifth door. There is this yellowing liquid coming out of the circular design just on the entrance.
"...this is… liquid gas… "
Ah, I understood the layout now. It seems in case of emergency this place would… explode, and since it's underground.
My body trembled, I immediately went ahead and started focusing on my escape. I would be burned then buried alive if I ever stopped and looted anything in here.
All I could do was swear.
These people actually wanted me dead!
Searching every crevice of the floor and if there were any personnel in here I would just shoot them dead. I couldn't risk someone reporting me.
I've killed too many right now to care. My bullets are too powerful to be stopped by mere C ranks as they were modified.
"Shit!"
And when I got to the first door which I thought was the right way I was immediately greeted with working people and some men in suits presumed guards.
The workers gasped when they say me.
A kid who is bloodied and holding two guns. I could presume I look like a threat… Even though I'm the one kidnapped.
The worker started running away in a scream and the guards started pulling out their weapons.
There were no words uttered with the guards, they just rushed towards me.
I'm getting tired at this point as I also rushed till I got out of that maze like an underground building.
I want this to finish by now so I uttered.
"On Sight"
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